Subscriber equipment for broadcast information and method therefor

Abstract

Subscriber equipment (300) is provided with a data storage device (350), such as a hard disk drive. A data processor (325) receives update messages. When the data processor (325) determines that the information code of an update message is on the subscriber's watch list, the data processor (325) processes the update and provides the processed update for display or further processing. When the information code is that of a selected record i.e. one that the subscriber is interested in, the data processor (325) processes the update and stores the processed update in a cache (330). However, when the information code is not of interest to the subscriber i.e. not on the subscriber's watch list and not that of a selected record, then the data processor does not process the record. Instead, the data processor (325) indexes and stores the unprocessed record in the data storage module (350).

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